Dulnain Bridge mum loses her brain cancer battle after heroic fight
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A Dulnain Bridge mother has lost her battle to brain cancer following a fight lasting six years after initially just being given a prognosis that she had six months left to live.
An emotional plea was made earlier this year by the family of Liene Krievina who had stage four brain cancer.
Throughout her illness, she had turned to alternative treatments rather than undergoing the traditional route of chemotherapy and radiotherapy to battle her cancer.
A notice issued by John Ross Funeral Services said that Liene (41) died peacefully on Thursday, August 17 at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness with her family by her side.
The death notice describes her as: "Beloved wife of Sandis, dearly loved mum of Sindy and Richard, long term member of Osprey Netball Club and a good friend to many."
Liene was also well-known in Inverness where she ran the Wild Pancakes restaurant, with her husband Sandis, which was formerly based in Church Street before moving to Inglis Street earlier this year.
Her funeral will take place next Wednesday (August 30) at 1pm at Inverness Crematorium.
All friends are respectfully invited to attend.
Donations, if desired, are to benefit the Osprey Netball Club based in Grantown.
Having travelled to Latvia for surgery she was told at the last minute that the procedure was too dangerous as it could have left her without speech or hearing.
She was initially diagnosed in 2017 and underwent various treatments, including an operation in 2021 which left her almost completely blind.
Nevertheless the mother-of-two said she still hoped that treatment offered at an institution in California could help shrink the tumour and an online crowdfunding page was launched in a bid to generate £20,000 towards the costs of travel and treatment.
“I want to live, I want to see my grandchildren,” Liene said at the time.
She had finally been diagnosed with her condition in August 2017.
"I was working with my husband Sandis' company Wild Furniture," she had told the Strathy.
"I was fit and feeling fine – I play netball regularly with The Ospreys in Grantown and that has kept me in pretty good condition – when suddenly everything fell apart.
"I was on a school roof in Rothes re-cladding a classroom, and suddenly I wasn't.
"I simply woke up in Raigmore Hospital and all the problems started, with several long seizures which led to an MRI scan."
To her astonishment, it revealed that she had a six centimetres brain tumour.
After releasing her from hospital, doctors wanted to start chemotherapy and radiotherapy which, they said, would extend her life by six months.
"We wanted more," said her daughter Sindy at the time. "And have already extended her expectations by well over a year, by using natural methods of healing."
